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Word | Existential |
Japanese Meaning | 実存的な |
derived from experience or the experience of existence; the rich experiential content of the teachings of the older philosophers- Benjamin Farrington; formal logicians are not concerned with existential matters- John Dewey / of or as conceived by existentialism / Having existence. / pertaining to existence; pertaining to the philosophy of existentialism / of or relating to existence. / of, relating to, or affirming existence existential propositions / a: grounded in existence or the experience of existence : empirical b: having being in time and space / [translation of Danish eksistentiel German existential] : existentialist, | |
Usage | ⇒ To the existential philosopher, human reason is inadequate to explain an irrational, meaningless universe. ⇒ child psychologist Bruno Bettelheim believed that fairy tales help children cope with their existential anxieties and dilemmas ⇒ So I've been going through an existential reckoning lately, in which I'm in the process of critically examining what I'm doing with my life and why I'm doing it. |
Synonyms | experiential, empirical, humanist, pragmatic, animist, animistic, atomistic, eclectic, eudaemonistic, existence, hedonist, hedonistic, humanistic, idealistic, instrumentalist, materialistic, mechanistic, metaphysical, monistic, naturalistic, |
Antonyms | theoretical, conjectural, hypothetical, metaphysical, nonempirical, speculative, theoretic, transcendentalist, unempirical, unproven, unsubstantiated, visionary, |
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